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by untog 5003 days ago
This isn't a Rails issue, it can affect any web framework. And it's a security flaw every single time mass assignment is used without whitelisting.
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> This isn't a Rails issue, it can affect any web framework.

Not exactly. Most web frameworks don't have a built-in "mass assignment", let alone enable it by default.

Well, true. I wonder how many people pass their models straight into a schema-less database without any checks?